There is a strong and ancient tradition of ghostly appearances in Ireland. The country is full of old castles with secret rooms, and while some of the stories are obvious figments of lively
imaginations, there are other tales that cannot easily be explained away. Of the many bizarre ocurrences related in this collection, perhaps the strangest is the case of the Gormanstown Foxes: on
the death of a Viscount Gormanstown, groups of foxes would gather around the castle and sit there untouched by hounds until the funeral rites were over.

Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country. They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick,
Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College's haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Francis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in County Meath.

Patrick Byrne was a fifth-generation Dubliner who was active in Journalism and writing for many decades. His other books include The Irish Ghost Stories of Sheridan Le Fanu (Mercies
Press). He died in 1999.

Terence Brown / Ireland’s Literature: Selected Essays (1988)

Preface
1 Saxon and Celt: the Stereotypes
2 Thomas Moore: A Reputation
3 Edward Dowden: Irish Victorian
4 The Church of Ireland and the Climax of the Ages
5 Canon Sheehan and the Catholic Intellectual
6 Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Critical Debate
7 After the Revival: Sean O Faolain and Patrick Kavanagh
8 Some Young Doom: Beckett and the Child
9 Austine Clarke: Satirist
10 Geoffrey Taylor: A Portrait
11 C. S. Lewis: Irishman?
12 Donoghue and Us Irish
13 Show Me a Sign: Brian Moore and Religious Faith
14 Poets and Patrimony: Richard Murphy and James Simmons
15 A Northern Renaissance: Poets from the North of Ireland 1965-1980
16 Remembering Who We Are
17 Awakening from the Nightmare: History and Contemporary LiteratureAcknowledgmentsIndex

ABOUT THE BOOK

These witty and informing essays range across Ireland's Victorian and twentieth-century literature with special attention to the
social and historical backgrounds. The poet Tom Moore, novelist-priest P.A. Sheenan, professor-critic Edward Dowden and pre-Home Rule Presbyterianism are the highlights of Brown's nineteenth
century. And between the Literary Revival and the recent Northern Renaissance, he probes the work and milieux of Synge, Yeats, Beckett, O'Faolain, Kavanagh and Clarke, of C.S. Lewis, Geoffrey
Taylor, Brian Moore and Denis Donoghue, and Richard Murphy, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, James Simmons, Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon, Frank McGuinness, Stewart Parker and Brendan
Kennelly.

TERENCE BROWN, a cultural historian, examines his chosen writers and writing with scrupulous sympathy, acknowledging shades of inherited belief, complex religious attitudes and imposed history.
The result is a book of unusual strength and clarity with brings a critical and unifying focus to contemporary Ireland's literature.

Stephen Watt / Joyce, O’Casey, and the Irish Popular Theater (1991)

JJBN: WATT-1991

Watt, Stephen. Joyce, O’Casey, and the Irish Popular Theater. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press,
1991. (Uploaded by KOBAYASHI on 18 April 2014)

Douglas Bennett. Encyclopedia of Dublin. Gill and MacMillan, 1994.

JJBN: BENNETT-1994

Bennet, Douglas .Encyclopedia of Dublin. Gill and MacMillan, 1994.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dictionary

Index

Bibliography

ABOUT THE BOOK

"Just what has made Dublin into one of the great historic capitals of the world? What kind go people did it and how did they do it? These are the questions that this encyclopedia intends to
answer. A capital city includes almost by definition every imaginable form of architecture and every conceivable human type. Artists, architects, landscapers and developers have managed to
formulate all shape and design supposedly possible in an ever changing environment. Every street and square, every lane and alleyway was walked and noted with compass and rule before being
included in this work. Also included in the phantomatic streetscape is the ghost of something that has gone forever: the story of Dublin as it used to be, the capital of Ireland with a
geographical position of 53°23' north and 6°9' west, situated on the river Liffey which flows eastwards into a natural harbor on which a ford was built which gave the region its name Áth loath,
the ford of the hurdles."

'Amounts to a street by street historical, commercial and literary life of Dublin...highly entertaining.' The Irish Times

“Inventing Ireland is that completely unusual thing: a highly readable, joyfully contentious book whose enormous learning and superb understanding of the literary text will introduce
readers for the first time to a remarkably lively panorama of Irish culture during the last century. Full of novel readings, theoretical investigations and audacious connections, Declan Kiberd’s
book lifts Ireland out of ethnic studies and lore and places it in the post-colonial world. In doing so he situates its great cultural traditions where they jostle not only the major texts of
English literature, but also those of writers like Salman Rushdie and García Márquez. The result in a dazzling, bravura performance” Edward W. Said

“[A] thought-provoking and entertaining critical blockbuster… There is no doubt that this book immediately joins a small group of indispensable books on Anglo-Irish literary history. It is also
typical of the best of that school in the brio and wit with which its learning and intelligence are carried” Bernard O’Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement

“Inventing Ireland is exactly what its title claims—an act of exuberant creativity. Nimbly, skillfully, and almost with a sense of near-wonderment at his own discoveries, Kiberd explores
the continuities between Irish past and Irish present. And by focusing on what he calls ‘revered masterpieces,’ and by examining them in the wider social context out of which they came, he
fashions a nation that is hospitable to all its prickly constituents” Brian Friel

“A critical study laced with wit, energy and unrelenting adroitness of discourse… Mr. Kiberd possesses a special gift for patient exploration of works of art in relationship to their
surroundings… Wit, paradox, and an almost indecent delight in verbal jugglery place Mr. Kiberd himself in a central Irish literary tradition that also includes Swift, Joyce and Beckett… Impudent,
eloquent, full of jokes and irreverence, by turns sardonic and conciliatory, blithely subversive but, without warning, turning to display wide and serious reading, a generosity of spirit, a
fierce and authentic concern for social and political justice. Rather like Wilde and Shaw… A remarkable achievement” Thomas Flanagan, New York Times

“Inventing Ireland…deserves to be read, not only by people with a special interest in Irish writing, but also by people with a strong interest in modern writing in English. Kiberd has
much that is original and valuable to say... I recommend Inventing Ireland to my readers” Conor Cruise O’Brien, Sunday Telegraph

"That somebody so knowledgable of the roots of Irish writing -- in Irish -- could move through Anglo-Irish literature and engage all the contemporary debates make one stand in awe of the breadth
of Kiberd's scholarship. That the story is presented with wit and vigor is a futher pleasure" Michael D. Higgins T.D.

“Kiberd possesses one of the liveliest and sharpest minds in Ireland, and it is not surprising that his book dazzles and engages. Nor that Inventing Ireland is both an international and an Irish
book" Eileen Battersby, Books of the Year, Irish Times

"A splendid book... A striking quality of the book is the author's ability to combine perceptive insight into literary matters with a keen awareness of the political forces that shaped this
century" Ulick O'Connor, Sunday Independent

“A dazzling book, a book to cherish and revisit. As you read and reread the Anglo-Irish texts, you’ll find it altering them, lightening them up. It changes Beckett and Joyce; it especially
changes John Millington Synge. It ends by offering to reshape Irish Studies curricula” Hugh Kenner, Washington Times

"Often brilliant and always intelligent" Fintan O'Toole, Observer

"A fabulous story...and an important, prtisan and highly readable book for believers and sceptics alike. Someone ought to put it on John Major's bedside table" Brenda Maddox, Literary
Review

“Formidable, thoroughly enjoyable, always engaged, often brilliant… This is the fullest attempt we have had to date to read both Irish historical experience and the literature that this has
involved in the light of post-colonial theory" Terence Brown, The Tribune Magazine

“One of the best studies of Irish literature to come along in years” Michael Stephens, Washington Post

"A joy to read -- endlessly provocative in its arguments and inventive in its comparisons" Joseph O'Connor, Sunday Tribune

“Epical in its aims and achievements...Kiberd's most striking characteristic as a critic is his intellectual daring, a kind of dignified audacity: he is capable of saying things that simply take
one's breath away” Brendan Kennelly, Sunday Business Post

"A life-affirming and positive book...Declan Kiberd has a genius for making what has not yet been expressed into the most blindingly clear cop-on...Aphorism and quotable quotes spring up at every
hand, jokes appear unannounced and every sentence lands on all fours...The tone here is one of celebration and success and generosity" Alan Titley, Books Ireland

"Kiberd is a gifted linguist, uniquely qualified as a writer and critic in both Irish and English languages...One ends the book admiring his intellectual brio and engagement, and applauding his
recognition of Irish cultural diversity" Roy Foster, The Times

"Since Roy Foster published his Modern Ireland in 1998 the national shrine has been echoing with impious voices...But the arrival of the 'Revisionists' is already an old story. Now they
have been put on their mettle by the 'Re-inventers'...Declan Kiberd's brilliant new book, Inventing Ireland, is an example" Neal Ascherson, Independent on Sunday

Terry Eagleton / Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (1995)

JJBN: EAGLETON-1995

Eagleton, Terry. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture. London: Verso, 1995. (Uploaded by KOBAYASHI on 16 November 2014)

1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections
2. National Character and the Character of Nations
3. Control of Types, Types of Control: The Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd
4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National Paradigm

Notes Bibliography Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book traces the emergence of a self-consciously national tradition in Irish writing from the era of the French Revolution and, specifically, from Edmund Burke’s counter-revolutionary
writings. From Gerald Griffin’s The Collegians, to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, from James Hardiman’s Irish Minstrelsy to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, Irish writing is dominated
by a number of inherited issues – those of national character, of conflict between discipline and excess, of division between the languages of economics and sensibility, of modernity and
backwardness. Almost all the activities of Irish print culture – its novels, songs, historical analyses, typefaces, poems – take place within the limits imposed by this complex inheritance. In
the process, Ireland created a national literature that was also a colonial one. This was and is an achievement that is only now being fully recognised.

Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

‘It remains true that on one in the field of Irish Studies today can match Deane’s ability to move from Corkery to Madame de Stael, Hippolyte Taine to Sean o Tuama . . . Strange Country is his
richest book so far.’ Terry Eagleton, Bullan

‘We would nowadays say the [Irish] culture flourished despite poverty; Yeats, provocatively, would say, because of it. Deane remains impartial, content to acknowledge the two great facts about
modern Ireland and explore them with endless sensitivity and tact.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement

Margaret Kelleher / The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible? (1997)

JJBN: KELLEHER-1997

Kelleher, Margaret. The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible? Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

(Uploaded by KOBAYASHI on 22 October 2014)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. ‘Appalling Spectacles’: Nineteenth-Century Irish Famine Narratives

Contemporary Testimonies

William Carleton’s The Black Prophet

Anthony Trollope’s Castle Richmond

2. The Female Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Famine Narratives

Women’s Famine Fiction

Asenath Nicholson’s Famine Annals

Women’s Philanthropy

3. Impersonating the Past: Twentieth-Century Irish Famine Literature

Famine and the Revival

The Memories of an ‘Outcast’ Class

A Mother’s ‘Nature’: O’Flaherty and Murphy

4. Literature of the Bengal Famine

The Historical Context

Literary Representations of Famine

Shakti, Sati, Savitri: the Fate of Female Figures

Famine as Female: the Fate of Kali

Postscript: Contemporary Images of Famine and Disaster

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Contemporary depictions of famine and disaster are dominated by female images. The Feminization of Famine examines these representations, exploring, in particular, the literature arising
from the Irish “Great Famine” of the 1840s and the Bengali famine of the 1940s. Kelleher illuminates recurring motifs: the prevalence of mother and child images, the scrutiny of women’s starved
bodies, and the reliance on the female figure to express the largely “inexpressible” reality of famine. Questioning what gives these particularly feminine images their affective power and
analyzing the responses they generate, this historical critique reveals striking parallels between these two “great” famines and current representations of similar natural disasters and
catastrophes.

Kelleher begins with a critical reading of the novels and short stories written about the Irish famine over the last 150 years, from the novels of William Carleton and Anthony Trollope to the
writings of Liam O’Flaherty and John Banville. She then moves on to unveil a lesser-known body of literature – works written by women. This literature is read in the context of a rich variety of
other sources, including eye-witness accounts, memoirs, journalistic accounts, and famine historiography. Concluding with a reading of the twentieth-century accounts of the famine in Bengal, this
book reveals how gendered representations have played a crucial role in defining notions of famine.

‘Kelleher’s book is a major contribution to the work on famine and will have to be reckoned with by all future writers on the topic. It opens the terrain of gender for Irish famine studies,
which has not been adequately addressed before, and counts as a work of prime and revisionary scholarship.’

Gregory Castle / Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001)

Castle, Gregory. Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.(Uploaded by HIRASHIGE on 5 July 2014)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1. The Celtic muse: anthropology, modernism, and the Celtic Revival

2. "Fair equivalents": Yeats, Revivalism, and the redemption of culture

3. "Synge-On-Aran": The Aran Islands and the subject of Revivalist ethnography

4. Staging ethnography: Synge's The Playboy of the Western World

5. "A renegade from the ranks": Joyce's critique of Revivalism in the early fiction

6. Joyce's modernism: anthropological fictions in Ulysses

Conclusion. After the Revival: "Not even Main Street is Safe"

Notes

Select bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that
anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism, even as these Irish writers remained ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses they sought
to undermine. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in anthropology to translate, reassemble, and edit oral and folk-cultural material. In
doing so, he claims, they confronted and undermined inherited notions of identity which Ireland, often a site of ethnographic curiosity throughout the nineteenth century, had been subject to.
Drawing on a wide range of post-colonial theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, post-colonial studies, and Modernism.

16 Multiculturalism and artistic freedom: the strange death of Liberal Europe (1993)

17 The Celtic Tiger: a cultural history (2003)

18 The city in Irish culture (2002)

19 Strangers in their own country: multiculturalism in Ireland (2001)

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's foremost scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and
Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's
work over twenty-five years demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences
across the world.

Declan Kiberd’s new book offers an exciting range of speculations on Irish culture in the world. Analogies of postcoloniality, the revival of the Irish language, stereotypes of the stage Irishman
and the Gaelic bard, archaism and modernity, the future of Irish Studies – a host of stimulating topics are reinvented for us afresh by Kiberd’s extraordinary learning and wonderfully vivid
prose. This is a book that shows how Ireland’s great cultural adventure, at once exceptional and paradigmatic, unfolds in the framework of contemporary globalisation. Kiberd offers us a true
intellectual feast! Professor Fredric Jameson, Duke University

Tracing the history of the Catholic-authored novel in nineteenth-century Ireland from its origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to its transformation by James Joyce’s
Ulysses in 1922, Emer Nolan offers a unique tour of Ireland’s literary landscape. Exploring a literary line too often overlooked in favor of Irish Gothic, she challenges received
histories of nineteenth-century Irish fiction and shows how an emergent and sometimes combative Catholic middle class generated its own idiosyncratic narrative forms. Nolan offers a major
reassessment of such figures as Thomas Moore, George Moore, and Charles Kickham and of sentimental fiction in nineteenth-century Ireland. With keen insight and deft arguments, Nolan presents a
highly original exploration of James Joyce and his relationship to his nineteenth-century Irish Catholic predecessors. At once provocative and enlightening, Catholic Emancipations is an
invaluable addition to the fields of Irish studies, Joyce studies, and the nineteenth-century novel.

"In reconfiguring our maps of the Irish nineteenth century, Nolan provides a persuasive archeology of the present moment, revealing just how many of our current triumphs and frustrations were
anticipated in some now-neglected texts. Lucid, bold, and unfailingly incisive, Catholic Emancipations will be recognized as an over-arching vision of Irish culture by a radical critic
of immense subtlety and imaginative power."

—Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland

"Catholic Emancipations illuminates the distinctive features of an important and largely unexplored tradition in Irish fiction. The book offers a rich, compelling account of how Catholic
fiction in Ireland grappled with the ambitions and anxieties of a politically advancing Catholic middle class."

3 Staging Bankruptcy of Male Sexual Fantasy: Lolita at the National Theatre

Futoshi Sakauchi

Part Two: Excavating Reconcile Inter-Textuality

4 Taking a Position: Beckett, Mary Manning, and Eleutheria (1947)

Christopher Murray

5 Beyond the Mask: Frank McGuinness and Oscar Wilde

Noreen Doody

6 Turing a Square Wheel: Yeats, Joyce and Beckett’s Quad

Minako Okamuro

Part Three: New Aesthetics in Irish Theatre

7 Multiple Monologues as a Narrative

Naoko Yagi

8 Frank McGuinness: Plays of Survival and Identity

Joseph Long

Part Four: Re-Staging Irish Past/Present and Inbetween

9 ‘The Saga will Go on’: Story as History in Bailegangaire

Hiroko Mikami

10 Dancing at Lughnasa: Between First and Third World

Declan Kiberd

Contributors

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in
the latter half of the twentieth century. It is symbolic that most at the editorial work for this book was carried out in 2006, the centenary year of the birth of Samuel Beckett. While the
editors consider Beckett to be the most important playwright in post-1950 Irish theatre, it should be noted that the contributors to the book are not bound in any sense by Beckettian criticism of
any kind. The contributors draw freely on Beckett and his work: some examine Beckett's plays in detail, while others, for whom Beckett remains an indispensable springboard to their discussions,
pay closer attention to his or their own contemporaries, ranging from Brian Friel and Frank McGuinness to Marina Carr and Conor McPherson. The editorial policy of the book was flexible enough to
allow contributors to go as far back as a hundred years in their attempt to contextualise post-1950 Irish theatre. The works of Oscar Wilde, W.B.Yeats, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and
James Joyce are frequently mentioned throughout the book; this undoubtedly added to the dynamics of the book, as well as to the rigour which the editors believe should be apparent in the
collection as a whole.

2 Audience allegory: the premiere of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World

3 Subnational sentiment: Dublin Suffrage Week and the uses of Ibsen

4 Modernist martyrdom: scripting the death of Terence MacSwiney

5 Fictions in the Free State: the 1924 Tailteann Games

Coda: The irreducible audience: Irish modernism and The Plough and the Stars riots

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

Employing previously unexamined archival material, Paige Reynolds reconstructs five large-scale public events staged in early twentieth-century Ireland: the riotous premiere of J. M. Synge's
The Playboy of the Western World in 1907; the events of Dublin Suffrage Week, including the Irish premiere of Ibsen's Rosmersholm, in 1913; the funeral processions of the
playwright and Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney in 1920; the sporting and arts competitions of the Tailteann Games in 1924; and the organized protests accompanying the premiere of Sean
O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars in 1926. The book provides attentive readings of the literature and theatre famously produced in tandem with these events, as well as introducing
surprising texts that made valuable contributions to Irish national theatre. This detailed account revises pessimistic explanations of twentieth-century mass politics and crowd dynamics by
presenting a more sympathetic account of national communities and national sentiment.

Catherine de Courcy is a history graduate of University College Dublin. While working as a professional librarian in Ireland, Papua New Guinea and Australia, she published widely on history and
desert travel. Her Master of Arts thesis on the history of Melbourne Zoo, completed in 1990, led to a continuing interest in zoos and she has an international reputation as a historian of zoos.
After living abroad for eighteen years, she returned to Ireland in 2003 and published An Adventure in Grief, a memoir about confronting her grief following the tragic death of her husband, John
Johnson. She is now a full-time writer.

The story of Irish modernism constitutes a remarkable chapter in the movement's history. This volume serves as an incisive and accessible overview of that brilliant period in which Irish artists
not only helped create a distinctive national literature but also changed the face of European and Anglophone culture. This Companion surveys developments in modernist poetry, drama, fiction, and
the visual arts. Early innovators, such as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Jack B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as late modernists, including Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien,
Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Francis Bacon, all appear here. But this volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapter on Irish women modernists, Irish
American modernism, Irish-language modernism, and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland.

Bryan Fanning is a leading academic in the field of migration research and the author of Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland (2002/2012) and New Guests of the Irish
Nation (2009). He is also the author of The Quest for Modern Ireland: The Battle of Ideas 1912-1986 (2008) and editor of An Irish Century: Studies 1912-2012 (2012).

Tom Garvin is the author of several hugely influential and best-selling books on Irish history including Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long? (2004), Judging
Lemass (2009) and News from a New Republic: Ireland in the 1950s (2010).

Michael O'Sullivan / The Humanities and the Irish University: Anomalies and Opportunities (2014)

JJBN: O'SULLIVAN-2014

O'Sullivan, Michael. The Humanities and the Irish University: Anomalies and Opportunities. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.

(Uploaded by HIRASHIGE on 10 October 2015)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Introduction: Defining the Humanities

2 The Humanities in the Irish Context

3 Newman and the Origins of the National University

4 The Emergence of an Irish Humanities Ethos

5 International Comparisons

6 The Transformation of the Humanities in Ireland

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is the first book-length study of the humanities from Newman to Bologna in the Irish context. It focuses on the unique characteristics of university policy in the National University
that constrained humanities education. Ireland was a deeply religious country throughout the twentieth century but the colleges of its National University never established a theology or religion
department. The official first language of Ireland is Irish but virtually all teaching in the arts and humanities is in English. The book examines the influence of such factors on Irish
humanities education and on Irish society in general.

Has the humanities ethos of the Irish university departed radically from the educational ideals of John Henry Newman, its most illustrious 'founder'? This book re-examines Newman's vision
for the university as well as responses to the 1908 Universities Act. It investigates how leading Irish educationalists and cultural theorists such as Pádraig Pearse, Denis Donoghue, J. J. Lee,
Declan Kiberd and Richard Kearney nurtured an Irish humanities perspective in response to more established humanities traditions associated with F. R. Leavis, Edward Said and Martha
Nussbaum.

The book employs a comparative approach in examining recent humanities movements such as Irish studies and postcolonial studies. Humanities debates from other national contexts such as
France, the US and Asia are examined in light of influential work on the university by Samuel Weber, Immanuel Kant, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida.

This book will appeal to all those interested in the humanities, Irish education and Irish studies in general.

7. A Rebel Song and a Rebel’s Requiem: Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Glass at Samhain

Mika Funahashi

Contributors

Index

About the Book

Irish Theatre and Its Soundscapes comprises seven essays on the theme of theatre and sound, with each contributor building her or his arguments around either a piece or a couple of pieces
of dramatic work by Irish authors. The editors, Hiroko Mikami and Naoko Yagi, have chosen to make the word 'soundscape' plural for the title of the book so that each of the seven essays would be
read in its own mix of language, music, and sound effects. All the 'soundscapes' in the book nevertheless relate to one another in the sense that, and to borrow Emily Thompson's expression, they
' have] more to do with civilization than with nature.' This collection of 'soundscapes' should in due course evolve into a dynamic and interdisciplinary platform for our asking where Irish
theatre is, where it has been, and in what direction it seems to be moving.

Six of the seven essays are arranged according to the categories 'Songs and Music'and 'A Confined Space, ' while an essay on Samuel Beckett 's Krapp's Last Tape divides one category from
the other. In 'Songs and Music' are essays on Tom Murphy's Conversations on a Homecoming, Brian Friel's Performances, and Frank McGuinness's Mutabilitie and
Speaking Like Magpies. 'A Confined Space' features essays on Murphy's The House, Paula Meehan's Cell, and Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained
Glass at Samhain.

Hiroko Mikami is Professor of Irish Studies in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University. Naoko Yagi is Professor of English in the School of Political Science and
Economics at Waseda University.